Wednesday, March 3, 2021 The Constitution Has Been Suspended: Government By Executive Order & Menaces It was not Congress who sent Japanese citizens to concentration camps on February 19, 1942, it was the action of one individual...the President. Congress didn't have the votes to pass a law of such a criminal and unconstitutional nature, therefore it was left to the executive branch of government to carry out the breech of civilized jurisprudence, requiring the action of one solitary individual. The policy to segregate Japanese Americans from other Americans was the result of Executive Order 9066 . What is even less known is that executive orders are directives (not laws) reserved only to executive branch personnel...they have no bearing on civilians who (1) don't work for the government; or (2) are off-duty from government work: Executive orders are not legislation. The President has the sole power to direct his or her executive branch as they please, and an executiv